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Christian Keitel
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(he/him) - tofu⬆️, flying⬇️. Assistant Prof (Lecturer) in Cognitive #neuroscience at Us Dundee and Stirling (hon) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇩🇪 Research: perception attention arousal. Methods: #EEG MEG pupillometry brain rhythms. www.keitelscience.com
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ckeitelsci.bsky.social
Today, we are out on strike again to save our jobs and tap the sign that Scottish (and in extension UK) Higher Education is not doing well, largely due to financial mismanagemement. This is all currently put on display by our Union reps in the Scottish parliament ⬇️ @ducuuo.bsky.social
ducuuo.bsky.social Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 10d
Watch union representatives from Scottish universities give evidence to the Scottish Parliament on the crisis and how it is affecting staff and students.

www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
Education, Children and Young People Committee | Scottish Parliament TV
www.scottishparliament.tv
January 28, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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ducuuo.bsky.social
Watch union representatives from Scottish universities give evidence to the Scottish Parliament on the crisis and how it is affecting staff and students.

www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
Education, Children and Young People Committee | Scottish Parliament TV
www.scottishparliament.tv
January 28, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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ducuuo.bsky.social
We are also hosting a rally outside of the Holyrood building in Edinburgh tomorrow from 12:30-1:30pm.

If you’re in Edinburgh, come and join us, in better weather ☀️

The rally will focus on our and other campus unions fight against job cuts in the Scottish HE sector.
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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ducuuo.bsky.social
Today we strike to ask the University of Dundee to rule out compulsory redundancies.

Join us at the front of the Tower until 10am and then at Holyrood for our rally to defend Scottish Higher Education sector from 12:30-13:30.
January 28, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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benediktzoefel.bsky.social
If you're looking for a PhD and you're interested in the cerebellum, predictions, language, and MEG, please apply by 1st March! We have two open positions.

More details here:
benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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bjherrmann.bsky.social
Hearing loss is the biggest potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia, but how many people know about this, how does it affect their behaviors, and what socioeconomic and demographic factors influence having heard about the link. Find out in our latest research: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Public awareness and behavioral impact of the hearing loss-dementia link among middle- to older-aged Canadians
Hearing loss is a major potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia, yet public awareness of this link and its behavioral implications remain poorly understood. We conducted a cross-sectional surv...
www.medrxiv.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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kerblooee.bsky.social
Welcome to the world of Ganzflicker... in comic form!?

Comic by the fabulous daltonkaygreta@gmail.com, Instagram: @Mr.dog.art
A MassArt initiative led by @hudrewthis.bsky.social

Hallucinations are often feared and unwanted... But what if we could induce them, so we can better understand them?
Narration: Hallucinations are complex phenomena occurring involuntarily to individuals with a mental disorder. They are often feared and unwanted. Narration: But what if they can be controlled? What if we could intentionally induce them in a secure way, so we can better understand them? Narration: In order for an experimentally induced hallucination to form, the mind must be presented with something specific that is visually very different from what it is accustomed to seeing. Narration: Sensory deprivation: The lack of stimuli (specifically visual). Participants engaging in this method of hallucination induction can be completely blindfolded or left in a pitch black environment. Either way, their mind must not be exposed to light. Narration: Ganzfeld: A uniformly colored, luminary visual field (e.g. a clear blue sky or a singular color on a screen). Exposure to ganzfeld can induce slight visual hallucinations. (Figure laying on the grass, facing a clear blue sky.) Narration: Sensory deprivation can be an unreliable method for the intention of experiencing induced hallucinations. Visuals aren’t always guaranteed, and it can take hours or even days for imagery to start showing up. (Figure sitting on the ground, blindfolded. Cobwebs are on the figure, signifying a long time has passed. A little spider is next to the figure.) Narration: Ganzfeld is also not very reliable. Though most individuals experience visuals, they are not very complex. Most experience colors and simple geometric patterns after a while. (Side view of a head, a cloud forming from their head that contains simple geometric shapes.) Narration: But is there a way to induce complex and vivid hallucinations almost immediately and comfortably? There sure is! (Two figures, shoulders up, next to each other. Exclamation marks next to one, and a question mark next to the other. They are both looking at the text bubble.)
January 9, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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bjherrmann.bsky.social
Finally out: www.eneuro.org/content/earl...

fMRI during naturalistic story listening in noise, looking at event-segmentation and ISC signatures. Listeners stay engaged and comprehend the gist even in moderate noise.

with @ayshamota.bsky.social @ryanaperry.bsky.social @ingridjohnsrude.bsky.social
Neural signatures of engagement and event segmentation during story listening in background noise
Speech in everyday life is often masked by background noise, making comprehension effortful. Characterizing brain activity patterns when individuals listen to masked speech can help clarify the mechan...
www.eneuro.org
January 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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studenova.bsky.social
I use EEG/MEG. When I meet like-minded researchers at conferences, the discussion always circles back to one thing: admitting that results may be confounded by leakage (also known as remaining field spread—RFS). In our new preprint, we quantify RFS in parcellated data using cross-talk function—CTF.🧵
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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danlikesbrains.bsky.social
Our paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online!

Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social

#neuroskyence
Respiratory coordination of excitability states across the human wake-sleep cycle
While the respiratory rhythm is increasingly recognized as a key modulator of oscillatory brain activity across the wake-sleep cycle in humans, very l…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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maramather.bsky.social
New paper with Andy Kim, @santimoralesphd.bsky.social, and Josh Senior just published! "Electroencephalography, pupillometry, and behavioral evidence for locus coeruleus-noradrenaline system related tonic hyperactivity in older adults" authors.elsevier.com/c/1mCryivP7S...
authors.elsevier.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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mbe-lab.bsky.social
*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*

📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)

Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer

...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.

Let's meet!
Stylized logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
ckeitelsci.bsky.social
Just a few days left to sign up for the OMEGAS symposium in Dundee. Link in original post ⬇️ Poster submission closes very soon - 25 Nov, registration open until 2 Dec. Looking forward to hearing from our expert speakers! #neurokyence #opm #meg
Advert banner reading "OPM-MEG Action Scotland (OMEGAS) Symposium, University of Dundee 9-10 December" and listing our speakers: Caroline Witton, Svenja Knappe, Tim Tierney, Mark Woolrich, Krish Singh and Olaf Hauk.
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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diegocandiar.bsky.social
Out now in Communications Biology 🧠 🫀We show that cardiac oscillations associated with vagal tone influence the strength of the heartbeat as sensed at brain level. We hypothesize that the heart may send information to the brain, encoded by the heartbeat strength doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Cardiac-vagal rhythm echoes on the heartbeat’s mechanosensory imprint in the brain - Communications Biology
Vagal-driven heart rhythm fluctuations modulate the heartbeat strength sensed in the head, linking cardiac rhythms to brain mechanosensation. These findings highlight vagal tone’s role in shaping brai...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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ducuuo.bsky.social
We held a rally to mark one-year of the financial crisis at the University of Dundee.

We resolve to continue opposing compulsory lay-offs and a radical reshaping of the institution.

If we fight together we win!

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity
‘Angry and exhausted’ Dundee University staff rally against jobs cut to save university
Campus unions organised the event where there was palpable anger at the current and former leadership of Dundee University.
www.thecourier.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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danlikesbrains.bsky.social
New perspective paper out now in @plosbiology.org with a few thoughts on #interoception: What it is (or rather is not), how it can inform therapeutic interventions, and where (we think) the field of brain-body #neuroskyence has yet to find more solid ground to build on.

doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Beyond the buzz: Grounding interoceptive interventions in mechanisms of brain–body coupling
The field of interoception research is growing at a rapid pace. This Perspective highlights why establishing both mechanistic insight and construct validity will be critical prerequisites for developi...
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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ducuuo.bsky.social
Want to find out how your voice can stop job cuts at the University of Dundee?

Take the first step towards having influence on what happens to you next.

Come along to our Stop The Jkb Cuts rally tomorrow at the Queen’s Hotel, 12:30-13:30pm.

#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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ducuuo.bsky.social
Day 1 of our 5 day strike done. Thanks to STV for coming along and interviewing members.

Come and have a chat with us at the front of the Tower any day this week.

news.stv.tv/north/dundee...
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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eelkespaak.bsky.social
🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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ducuuo.bsky.social
If you missed it, here’s the interim Principal talking about substantial future job cuts at University of Dundee.

He refers to the number of job losses recommended in the recovery plan. This is 390FTE with 340FTE via redundancies.

We believe redundancies are not necessary. #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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ducuuo.bsky.social
Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee.

He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies.

Judge for yourself.
October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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ducuuo.bsky.social
A great videos with excellent contributions from across the UK.

Vote now. Show your solidarity for the national ballot to save our universities.

#SaveHE
#WeAreTheUniversity
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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studenova.bsky.social
We (I and @willenjoy.bsky.social) created a toolbox for simulations of EEG/MEG because we needed to simulate data. Our initial aim was to simulate connectivity. For this short clip, I simulated two sources with phase connectivity using our toolbox.
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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ckeitelsci.bsky.social
Join us for the first symposium of the OPM-MEG Action Scotland (OMEGAS) initiative - www.dundee.ac.uk/omegas, to take place at the University of Dundee, *9-10 Dec*, and funded by the Quantum ARC quantum-tech-alliance.co.uk #neuroskyence #meg #opm /1
OMEGAS
Optically pumped magnetometers MagnetoEncephaloGraphy Action Scotland
www.dundee.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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tahnee-engelen.bsky.social
Open assistant professor position in noninvasive brain stimulation in cognition at Maastricht University: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3557...
Assistant Professor in Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Cognition
Welcome to the Brain Stimulation and Cognition lab at Maastricht University! Our goal: The Brain Stimulation and Cognition group at Maastricht University aims to unravel the psychological and neural m...
www.academictransfer.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM